The company aims to invest in and manage financial and non-financial assets, as well as acquire, hold, and dispose of shares, participations, and movable and immovable property. Activities that require a license as a bank, securities dealer, or fund management company are explicitly excluded. The company directs its business activities, where permissible, towards the group's goals. Accordingly, the company may, in the interest of the group or individual group companies (including their direct or indirect parent companies as well as their direct or indirect subsidiaries), enter into contracts and, in particular, grant loans or other financing to such group companies and provide securities of all kinds for their liabilities, including by pledging or assigning security interests in or assigning security rights to the company's assets, or by providing guarantees of any kind, whether for a fee or not. The company may establish branches and subsidiaries at home and abroad and acquire, hold, dispose of, or finance any type of business. The company may acquire, hold, and dispose of real estate. The company may engage in all commercial activities that are directly or indirectly related to the company's purpose and take all measures that seem appropriate to promote the company's purpose or are related to it.